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Munich, Germany: Prestel Verlag, 2006. This is a magnificent volume on the renowned German biologist, naturalist, artist, and illustrator, who developed his science and his ideas about nature in both writing and images; this volume focuses on his images of nature, and places them in the context of his life and work; includes many of his drawings and watercolors (light… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. This is a study of 19th century North American artists whose travels through Central and South America had a decisive influence on their own artistic careers; includes 100 black & white illustrations, 8 color plates, and an appendix with the biographies and itineraries of the artist-travelers (olive green cloth with gold lettering on… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press Following a symposium held at ZKM / Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2011, this collection of essays and artwork documents both the aesthetic and cognitive developments of the molecular revolution and demonstrates the links between molecular sciences, the visual arts, and music (laminated white pictorial cover with black lettering; a… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Musees et Monuments de France, 1992. This is an illustrated history of the one of the finest museums in France and its collections; includes many color reproductons of the paintings and other works of art in the museum (pictorial cover with detail from 15th century painting on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy). Paperback. As New. 8… Read more about this item

Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.: Perceval Press, 2009. This book consists of a series of 35 collages that combine maps, paint and text to form an atlas of imaginary future American states that is a satirical critique of American imperialism (brown covers with silver lettering and world maps on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Duffield & Company, 1923. Hard Cover; Very Good; No Dust Jacket; This is a study of the philosophical background, the intellectual life, and the art of the 11th century Chinese painter Li Lung-Mien; includes 20 full-page reproductions of Li Lung-Mien's paintings; the author was an influential journalist, translator and philanthropist (gray cloth with black Chinese characters… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Published for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this is a two-volume boxed set, an extensively illustrated biography of Eakins by an important art historian, a curator and later the Director of the Whitney Museum of Art, who published an earlier biography of Eakins in 1933, based on research that included… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. This book is the catalog of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum from November 1996 to February 1997 whose intent was to show that, as important as Dada was to the growth of American modernism, the ferment of New York played an equally critical role in the evolution of Dada… Read more about this item